I can't think of any movies or TV Shows, but the actual TV's in Bratislava's public transport are running Ubuntu.

Specifically about Ubuntu name dropping:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/2004-to-20-04-lts-ubuntu-in-popular-culture

I especially like the Veronica Mars episode where Mac complains about the font problems which plagued us back in the day!

Nmap have been featured in maany movies:
https://nmap.org/movies/

Nakatomi Plaza on the other hand was running BSD:

In 2012 I was quite chuffed to see the boot screen of SUSE being used on Red Dwarf:
[https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/File:Red-Dwarf-SUSE-Linux.png](https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/File:Red-Dwarf-SUSE-Linux.png)

I think [Mr. Robot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot) did that multiple times. I don't have a link to provide, but it shouldn't be too hard to find. :wink:

[Hacksmith Industries](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjgpFI5dU-D1-kh9H1muoxQ) are a lot of fun, and you often see Ubuntu being used when they're coding various electronics :)

The Lost in Space reboot used an Rpi as a prop. Not real linux, but we all know the superfuture will run on linux.

Quoting: whizseSpecifically about Ubuntu name dropping:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/2004-to-20-04-lts-ubuntu-in-popular-culture

I especially like the Veronica Mars episode where Mac complains about the font problems which plagued us back in the day!

Nmap have been featured in maany movies:
https://nmap.org/movies/

Nakatomi Plaza on the other hand was running BSD:

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Fonts always seemed like an easy issue to fix, you just had to use a DE that didn't stink back then. Either that or it's because I came from the Atari ST where fonts were far worse :P

Ubuntu being used at Boston Dynamics:
https://youtu.be/Ns__YpRneBA?t=658

[Mercedes](https://linux.softpedia.com/blog/Ubuntu-and-Xubuntu-Power-First-Mercedes-Benz-S-500-Class-Autonomous-Car-455551.shtml) did an ad for their self driving car efforts in 2013, and [George Hotz](https://itsfoss.com/self-driving-car-ubuntu-linux/) built his own self driving Acura in 2015. Both using Ubuntu.

Also, this entire subreddit... [/r/itsaunixsystem](https://www.reddit.com/r/itsaunixsystem/) :)

Saw recently this Ubuntu on a AI doc:



And I also remembered this Lone Gunmen (X-Files spin-off) episode:

Here's one for the Dutch among us : The sketch series "Toren C" featured ubuntu on most if not all of their desktops at least in the early years.



From [Original sketch. ](https://youtu.be/ocQASNHr5sw), quite recognizable... printing in the 2000s was never fun ;)

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Quoting: ysblokjeprinting in the 2000s was never fun ;)

It still isn't for some printers, I have some HP/whatever printer that I could never made it to work in Linux, and I keep a W7 on a laptop just for it. :sad:

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Quoting: ysblokjeprinting in the 2000s was never fun ;)

It still isn't for some printers, I have some HP/whatever printer that I could never made it to work in Linux, and I keep a W7 on a laptop just for it. :sad:

This always seems odd to me, HP has literally THE best linux support on their printers. I set up a new system and basically it detects my Laserjet on the network and installs the drivers pretty much right when I open the printer dialog.

Quoting: dubigrasuSaw recently this Ubuntu on a AI doc:

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And I also remembered this Lone Gunmen (X-Files spin-off) episode:

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I still need to finish the last few episodes of X-files, I like that they made a ghost in the machine episode mentioning the Lone Gunmen. Man that was one of Fox's shortest lived series, next to The Tick. Even Firefly had a few more episodes made than either of those two. Both were great series too. At least Firefly lives on in comics and books. The Tick.. I think got canceled yet again by Amazon?

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: ysblokjeprinting in the 2000s was never fun ;)

It still isn't for some printers, I have some HP/whatever printer that I could never made it to work in Linux, and I keep a W7 on a laptop just for it. :sad:

This always seems odd to me, HP has literally THE best linux support on their printers. I set up a new system and basically it detects my Laserjet on the network and installs the drivers pretty much right when I open the printer dialog.

I used to work at big installer / building company as an admin and I have mixed memories when it comes to HP.
Remember GDI printers? HP had those too, and what was worse the printerdrivers were sabotaged in such a manner that sharing the printer from a windows machine was also impossible. (even between windows machines)
Yes HP has a lot of supported printers but they pulled a lot of shit too. Same can be said for Brother and a lot of others. I had great working brother printers and completely b0rked ones.

I got a Samsung Xpress MFP for free a few years ago and that works great, that's a HP in disguise. The neat trick with that one is that it has Airprint / Airscan for apple, so it works "driverless" with cups and via a patched Xsane driver.

Anyway that's enough off-topic for me.

Quoting: ysblokje

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: ysblokjeprinting in the 2000s was never fun ;)

It still isn't for some printers, I have some HP/whatever printer that I could never made it to work in Linux, and I keep a W7 on a laptop just for it. :sad:

This always seems odd to me, HP has literally THE best linux support on their printers. I set up a new system and basically it detects my Laserjet on the network and installs the drivers pretty much right when I open the printer dialog.

I used to work at big installer / building company as an admin and I have mixed memories when it comes to HP.
Remember GDI printers? HP had those too, and what was worse the printerdrivers were sabotaged in such a manner that sharing the printer from a windows machine was also impossible. (even between windows machines)
Yes HP has a lot of supported printers but they pulled a lot of shit too. Same can be said for Brother and a lot of others. I had great working brother printers and completely b0rked ones.

I got a Samsung Xpress MFP for free a few years ago and that works great, that's a HP in disguise. The neat trick with that one is that it has Airprint / Airscan for apple, so it works "driverless" with cups and via a patched Xsane driver.

Anyway that's enough off-topic for me.

For randomness, I bought a non-color laser printer that is a Samsung, would have to look up the model again (M2571N?) That is networked, USB.. and most importantly, a Centronics interface! I have successfully used it on my Atari 8bits and Apple IIGS and Linux. Talk about a versatile thing! Supports the old Epson and IBM proprinter languages. Only thinga that would make it better would be color support and a continuous sheet feeder for the print shop banners!

Quoting: ysblokje

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: ysblokjeprinting in the 2000s was never fun ;)

It still isn't for some printers, I have some HP/whatever printer that I could never made it to work in Linux, and I keep a W7 on a laptop just for it. :sad:

This always seems odd to me, HP has literally THE best linux support on their printers. I set up a new system and basically it detects my Laserjet on the network and installs the drivers pretty much right when I open the printer dialog.

I used to work at big installer / building company as an admin and I have mixed memories when it comes to HP.
Remember GDI printers? HP had those too, and what was worse the printerdrivers were sabotaged in such a manner that sharing the printer from a windows machine was also impossible. (even between windows machines)
Yes HP has a lot of supported printers but they pulled a lot of shit too. Same can be said for Brother and a lot of others. I had great working brother printers and completely b0rked ones.

I got a Samsung Xpress MFP for free a few years ago and that works great, that's a HP in disguise. The neat trick with that one is that it has Airprint / Airscan for apple, so it works "driverless" with cups and via a patched Xsane driver.

Anyway that's enough off-topic for me.

That's interesting because I have an old Xerox laser printer that is actually a Samsung printer in disguise. It doesn't have any official drivers for any Windows newer than XP. These days it is automatically recognized by Linux. I have it attached to my media server and served out through CUPS. It is automatically available to just about anything I attach to my network, including Windows 10 machines and Android devices as an IPP printer.

Quoting: The_Aquabatwell this is a very old video from a TV news show here about Hyakutake Comet that passed very close to the earth on the nineties... a few days ago it was the anniversary and I was revisiting some of this old videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fil2CmDzi3o

this is really old damm, but this looks like Caldera Linux to me (or Red Hat), this is really rare some people using Linux on 1996 (don't know what distro it is, but that's the CDE desktop though)
or maybe this is Solaris 2?

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The other one that's somewhat interesting of a topic is spotting Linux out in the wild. Lowe's for example uses Redhat on their terminals throughout their stores. And I've seen Ubuntu used in car oil shops, like Jiffy Lube

Are there any routers running Windows?

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Quoting: The_Aquabat

Quoting: slaapliedjeThe other one that's somewhat interesting of a topic is spotting Linux out in the wild. Lowe's for example uses Redhat on their terminals throughout their stores. And I've seen Ubuntu used in car oil shops, like Jiffy Lube

my router uses Linux it's a TP link 841HP, I would have never guessed it; and I didn't buy it for that reason, I only picked some random router. On the drivers/firmware download page they [include some GPL code ](https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tl-wr841hp/#GPL-Code). Just bringing this up, since maybe some of you might want to buy it, since in a way you are indirectly supporting linux, because the code it's out there and it can be upstreamed. afaik not a lot of people know that TP link contributes to the linux kernel (in one way or another). Never read any linux news site mentioning anything about TP link like ever.
But don't expect to do anything apart from it's main use, this seems like a black box, like the TiVO, I think that there's no way to login into bash on this router.

Pretty much every router on the planet runs either Linux or some custom embedded OS, like Cisco's IOS (as opposed to Apple's iOS). Also note, that sadly most of these don't get updated whenever there is the CVE of the week...